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CyrusIronwood
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Mar 27, 2025

Antivirus help

I picked up a virus I believe from a game I downloaded it has disabled internet access windows update any restore points etc. I have scanned with kaspersky rescue disk but it didn’t detect anything. I have kadoersky and malware bytes installed but they don’t detect it while the system is running and the bootable usb antivirus didn’t work either. Any other suggestions.

I was thinking of doing a file system integrity check or downloading the windows msrt.

Any suggestions would be appreciated don’t want to have to rebuild my system as there is a lot of historic information I’m fearful of loosing.

  • AdrianPierce's avatar
    AdrianPierce
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    Use it to create installation media, and then run the setup while your current Windows is running (select the option to keep personal files and apps). This can repair your OS without deleting your data.

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